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Let go of lower-level decisions whenever possible. Focus on critical decisions.

Information and Communication Overload Quiz

Please select True or False for each statement. Please complete all questions.
If you're younger than 45, you might want to skip this quiz.
If you're over 50, this quiz will be challenging.

Information:

True	False	The Sunday New York Times contains more information items than a typical adult in 1892 was exposed to in his or her entire life.
True	False	Each week about 3,000 books are published in the U.S.
True	False	The Harvard Library subscribes to 160,000 periodicals.
True	False	The typical cereal box contains more than 1,200 words.
True	False	Every second more information is generated on Earth than you could ingest in a lifetime.

The overglut and your memory: in what year did these events occur?

True	False	Active American military involvement in Vietnam ended in 1975.
True	False	The U.S. first put a man on the moon in 1967.
True	False	The shuttle Challenger exploded in mid-air in 1986.
True	False	Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1984.
True	False	The Berlin Wall came down in 1988.

News Media and Advanced Technology:

True	False	The average person in the U.S. spends 8 years of his/her life watching television.
True	False	Ninety-seven percent of all households have at least five radios (excluding car radios) and most have Ipod's and mp3 players.
True	False	In 1970, there were three major TV networks; today there are more than 500 full power, cable, or independent TV stations.
True	False	In 1970, 25 regular season college basketball games were aired on the major networks; in 1997 including cable, over 1,000 were aired.
True	False	There are more than 61,000 hours of programming per month listed in the typical issue of Orbit magazine (for homes with satellite dish).

Paper:

True	False	Each weekday, the White House receives 40,000 letters.
True	False	With the advent of computers in the early 1980s we expected the paperless office; by 2005 we got 3 times the paper.
True	False	Americans annually consume more than 650 pounds of paper per person!
True	False	In the 1980s, growth in total volume of 3rd class, bulk (junk) mail in the U.S. was 13 times faster than the growth in the population.
True	False	More than 2,800 pages were generated in the investigation of Senator Bob Packwood for alleged harrassment.

Choices:

True	False	Between 1978 and today, the number of items in the typical supermarket has tripled.
True	False	Hallmark offers cards for more than 105 types of familial relationships.
True	False	There are now more than 1,000 varieties of shampoo on the market and over 2,000 skin care products.
True	False	More than 250,000 videos are listed in Bowker's Complete Video Directory.
True	False	There are at least 50 flavors of jelly beans available today.

Jeff Davidson is the Work Life Balance Expert ®

Jeff Davidson, MBA, CMC, Executive Director -- Breathing Space®Institute, 2010
3202 Ruffin Street, Raleigh NC 27607-4024
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